Max Frisch Quotes

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.